Rabbit, Run

On page 7 of this novel, John Updike uses the adjective "crisscrossing." On page 14, he uses it again. I think it was too soon, but maybe it was intentional. I have a hard time believing it was laziness. Updike can be annoying in the way he pumps out a gusher of adjectives, and more than once I found his metaphors strained, or odd. But then he comes out with a pure, beautiful sentence like this one on page 81: "In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature." And far from being annoyed at the use of the same adjective -- twice in the space of five words, no less -- you are stunned.